It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornnessof an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.- Albert Einstein

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.- Lao Tzu

Laughter gives us distance.It allows us to step back from an event,deal with it and then move on.- Bob Newhart

In all our contacts, it is probably the senseof being really needed and wantedwhich gives us the greatest satisfactionand creates the most lasting bond.- Eleanor Roosevelt

The way you get meaning into your lifeis to devote yourself to loving others,devote yourself to your community around you,and devote yourself to creating somethingthat gives you purpose and meaning- Mitch Albom

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.- Pauline R. Kezer

When a father gives to his son, both laugh;when a son gives to his father, both cry.- William Shakespeare

Worrying is like a rocking chair,it gives you something to do,but it gets you nowhere.- Glenn Turner

Our desires always disappoint us;for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.- Elbert Hubbard

Experience is a hard teacher.She gives the test firstand the lessons afterwards.- Anonymous

It is not what we get.But who we become, what we contribute...that gives meaning to our lives.- Tony Robbins

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance;and a people who mean to be their own governors mustarm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.- James Madison

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.- Fay Weldon

Above all the grace and the giftsthat Christ gives to his belovedis that of overcoming self.- St. Francis of Assisi

Faithfulness in the performance of small dutiesgives us strength to adhere to difficult determinationsthat life will someday force us to make.- Paramahansa Yogananda

Medicine sometimes snatches away health,sometimes gives it.- Ovid

Beauty is whatever gives joy.- Edna St.Vincent Millay

The quality of mercy is not strained.It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath. It is twice blest:It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.- William Shakespeare

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that Godgives us to control our fears,not to oust them.- Vincent McNabb

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!- John Muir

Music is a moral law.It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind,flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.- Plato

There is no meaning to life except the meaning mangives his life by the unfolding of his powers.- Erich Fromm

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man.An intelligent woman gives up.- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination,because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise,gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of whichit was not before possessed.- Joseph Addison

The fact is that love is of two kinds,one which commands, and one which obeys.The two are quite distinct, and the passion to whichthe one gives rise is not the passion of the other.- Honore de Balzac

A just laicism allows religious freedom.The state does not impose religion but rather givesspace to religions with a responsibility toward civil society,and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.- Joseph Ratzinger

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade usthat we are nothing but acornsand that our greatest happiness will beto become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;but that is of interest only to pigs.Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:that we can become oak trees.- E. F. Schumacher

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world.Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world.Just as the soul sees but is not seen,so God sees but is not seen.Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.- Marcus Tullius Cicero

So during those first moments of the day,which are yours and yours alone, you can circumventthese boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters.And this gives you the opportunity to plan the timemanagement of the entire day.- Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement,it's rather frightening and threatening to have othersascribe such importance to something you know you'rejust renting for a while.- Candice Bergen

I think I'm most proud of my family right now.I'm more into that then I've ever been.It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.- Merle Haggard

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which givesa nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.- Eric Hoffer

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble,it's what we know that ain't so.- Will Rogers

If a film is very clever and well-written,that's what gives you freedom as a director.- Patrice Leconte

We must lead in a different way...We must have an active president, who gives strongdirection and works with the government for its implementation.- Lionel Jospin

The crowd gives us so much energy and we are able to really feed off of it.Hitting those shots and having the crowd go crazy helps boost our confidence.We love our fans.- Steve Nash

But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous,too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom.A certain freedom to live in a free way.- Peter Davison

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.- Ovid